C C wrote: > I think those are great projects (and I use e164.org) but you are > still limited to only calling the numbers of people who have listed > themselves or of VoIP providers who have listed their customers. With > this I am hoping to get enough people in various area codes who have a > gateway to provide the ability to call *ANY* PSTN number in their area > code. So if grandma knows nothing about VoIP and has an old rotary > telephone, you could still call her if someone in her area code signed > up to be part of this network. In exchange for providing free call > termination they then get to use the network to make their own calls > using other people's gateways. > > I agree, this is not new, DUNDi-test has been around for a while but > it seems to have died out and I wanted to see if more people would get > into it if a virtual appliance for VMWare Player could be created that > would make it brain dead for people to setup a gateway and join the > network.
Hmmm another bellster, there is a number of problems with offering such things... Myself and others wrote numerous points on why such offerings are "bad" and you might want to look at these points: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/fwdOUT There is also other reasons why you wouldn't want to offer such services using DUNDI as it has it's own set of issues, which is why enum exists in the first place as it scales 10000x better then DUNDI ever will, in fact if you get a large enough network of servers you will eventually flood the network with requests and/or flapping, lookup time degradation etc etc etc... We list all kinds of routes in e164.org and if people are willing to approach this professionally and sensibly there is no reason why these routes can't also be listed in e164.org rather then using DUNDI... -- Best regards, Duane http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."
